The brain reaction to viewing faces of opposite- and same-sex romantic partners

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Zeki, Semir ^a   Romaya, John Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LESBIAN; LOVE; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PUTAMEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUALITY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; LOVE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 79251530204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015802     Document Type: Article

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